“Miss Bala” is a bad trip into the dark Wonderland of Mexican drug-cartels. Our Alice is Laura Guerrero, an innocent girl living with her father and brother, who dreams of entering the Miss Baja...
NBC’s darkly atmospheric Grimm premiered last Friday, blending the good old fashioned police procedural with the legends of the Brothers Grimm in a world that one of the characters assures us ‘is...
Early on in George Clooney’s super-cool, super-dark spin on American politics The Ides Of March, Ryan Gosling’s wunderkind campaign manager, Stephen Meyers is playfully called “the big man on...
The thin veneer of middle class respectability is blasted apart in Roman Polanski’s midnight-black comedy “Carnage.” Based on Yasmina Reza’s stage play, “The God of Carnage” the film...
Ralph Fiennes’ adaptation of Coriolanus has been dubbed “muscular” but all the upper body strength in the world doesn’t quite compensate for the skinny legs that buckle just shy of the...
It would be easy to write Showtime’s Homeland, which debuted to smashing ratings, off as a classic Cold War drama updated for the modern age; plucky, driven CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes)...
The latest season of Doctor Who (a long-running UK scifi/fantasy series about a time traveling even-longer-lived body-changing alien -- whew, shortest summary ever!), the second of current showrunner...
Drive is slick. Spy Hunter slick. Every frame oozes class, bleeds cool. Newman cool, McQueen cool, O’Neal cool. Ryan Gosling is their heir apparent, a silent human machine, driving gloves and satin...
The critically acclaimed Boardwalk Empire returned for its second season this week with ‘21,’ which informed viewers that all was not well in Atlantic City, and set the stage for what looks like...
It’s hard to say exactly when I figured out Whitney. I’d been dreading it since this summer, when I heard that Whitney Cummings — a spectacularly hacky stand-up who trades in tired “women are...
